School: Cill Mhuire (B.), Lios Árd-achaidh
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Buachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 171
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- The way Lissarda got its name is. Lissarda means high fort. There is a passage running from one fort to another through the town land. There are about fifty inhabitants in it. There are two Castles in Lissarda. One of the Castles was a distillery and people lived in them until about sixty years ago. There is a hill there called Cnoc Goilean and the relics of a church. In a farm in the locality there is a field with a pond in it and it is called the pond field.
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- Mr Daniel Wall
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lissardagh, Co. Cork
- Some old people remember a great lot of houses from Kilmurry village down along to Farren Hill, and along the road from Kilmurry village to Poll an Airgead. It was in a house on the southern side of the road Father O'Sullivan was born. He was the translator of the Imitation of Christ into Irish.(continues on next page)
